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Topic Started: Jul 8 2006, 08:30 PM (802 Views)
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Unidentified White Female
Date Found - 5/23/99
Where Found - Boynton Beach, Florida
Approximate Age - 20-45 years old
L.E.A. - Palm Beach County Sheriff Dept.
Contact - Sgt. Springer
Telephone Number - (561)688-4013

ID Info - NCIC #U-030001339. This white female was 5'4" tall and had straight hair. She was found wearing black spandex shorts, a light colored bra and floral underwear. She also had one white Nike tennis shoe size 7.

Circumstances - This female was located in a feeder canal 1/2 mile south of Boynton Beach Blvd. along US 441. The initial investigation showed blunt force trauma to the right side of the skull. The body had been in the canal approximately one month prior to discovery and she may have been the victim of a traffic homicide. Dental records are available.

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White Female Found in Boynton Beach
Sunday, May 23, 1999
Approximate Age - 20 - 45 years old


ID Info: Victim was a white female, 5'4" tall. She was found wearing black spandex shorts, a light colored bra and floral underwear. One white Nike tennis shoe, size 7, was found. Approximate age 20-45 years of age.

Circumstances: The victim was located in a feeder canal 1/2 mile south of Boynton Beach Blvd. along US 441 in Boynton Beach, Florida on 5/23/99. Initial investigation showed blunt force trauma to the right side of the skull. The body was in the feeder canal approximately one month. Dental records are available at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. No fingerprints are available due to decomposition. It is possible that subject may have been a victim of a traffic homicide.

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Unidentified White Female

Located on May 23, 1999 in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.
It is possible that she may have been a victim of a traffic homicide.
Estimated Date of Death: Approximately one month


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 20 - 45 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'4".
Distinguishing Characteristics: Straight hair.
Dentals: Dental records are available. All four of her 3rd molars impacted.
Clothing: She was wearing black spandex shorts, a light colored bra and floral underwear. One white Nike tennis shoe, size 7, was found.


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Case History
The victim was located in a feeder canal on Bob West Road, 1/2 mile south of Boynton Beach Boulevard, along US 441 in Boynton Beach, Florida.
Initial investigation showed blunt force trauma to the right side of the skull.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
561-688-3000

Agency Case Number:
1999-00427

NCIC Number:
U-030001339
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office


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This article can be found on page A1 of the January 17, 2001 Daily News.

Remains may not be Rogers

The local medical examiner will review the skeleton and run more tests after finding problems with the original ID.
By MICHAEL STEWART, Daily News Staff Writer
CRESTVIEW - The parents of Kristy Rogers planned to bury their daughter today.

Now, it's unclear if the skeletal remains shipped from Palm Beach County for burial belonged to the missing teen.

The local medical examiner confiscated the remains for further examination Tuesday, saying the bones may not be those of Rogers, who has been missing 3 1/2 years.

"This whole thing has got me so frustrated, it is driving me crazy," said Wilma Sanders, Rogers' mother.

Early last week, the Palm Beach County medical examiner positively identified a Jane Doe as Rogers. Using previous dental records for comparison, Palm Beach investigators said there was little doubt that the skeletal remains discovered in a canal in Boynton Beach in May 1999 belonged to the missing Crestview teen.

They were so sure that the body belonged to Rogers, who disappeared on Aug. 2, 1997, that they sent the remains to Hayes Funeral Home in Elba, Ala., for burial.

But the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Berkland say the identification may have been premature.

For one thing, Berkland says, the dental comparison did not yield a perfect match.

"There was some dental work there that we do not have a record of being there," Berkland said.

In addition, officials in Palm Beach County listed the cause of death of the Jane Doe as blunt-force trauma to the head.

Berkland said reports indicate that the skull showed evidence of a blow to the head that had healed over. It is unclear at this point if the injury is the same as that reported as the fatal blow.

Either way, Rogers' parents say their daughter was never injured in that manner. But Berkland said the injury could have occurred after Rogers disappeared.

The most serious discrepancy is the estimated age of the skeletal remains. Rogers was 16 when she disappeared in 1997. Palm Beach officials estimate the person they found in 1999 died in late 1998 or early 1999.

If the body was indeed that of Rogers, she would have been 18 at the time of her death. Berkland would not give specifics, but he did say that a forensic anthropologist's report indicates that the body found in Palm Beach "was considerably older than that."

"With all these questions, it would be very poor on my part to allow this to go ahead and continue and to allow the burial of what could potentially be the remains of someone other than Kristy Rogers," Berkland said.

The remains were taken from the funeral home Tuesday by FDLE officials and transported to the Okaloosa County Medical Examiner's Office. Berkland intends to conduct an extensive comparison of dental records and have the forensic anthropologist conduct more tests.

If the body is not positively ruled out or identified as Rogers, a DNA test is possible. Berkland does not know how long it will take to conclude the tests.

The twists and turns of the complicated case have begun to take a toll on Rogers' loved ones.

"They should have done all this before they notified the family," Sanders said.

The family originally planned to bury the body they believed to be their daughter's last Sunday. But the remains, which were reportedly shipped from Palm Beach early last week, did not show up in time for the funeral.

The remains arrived Tuesday, just in time for today's funeral, only to be taken away once more.

Mack Cawthon, the boy Rogers was dating, was the last known person to have seen the girl alive. Rogers reportedly left his home around 5 a.m. the day of her disappearance.

Cawthon said last week that he did not believe speculation that Kristy had run away and wound up in Palm Beach.

"I would have rather been wrong," he said Tuesday following the announcement of the latest development. "I didn't feel it would be her unless they were able to prove it with DNA testing."
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Funeral off after Boynton Beach remains misidentified

WEST PALM BEACH (AP) -- The delayed funeral of a Panhandle teen-ager missing since 1997 has been called off after authorities in South Florida acknowledged incorrectly identifying a body found by a canal in 1999.

Earlier this month, the medical examiner's office in Palm Beach County identified skeletal remains found in suburban Boynton Beach in May 1999, using dental records, as those of Kristy Jean Rogers. She was 16 when she was last seen in Crestview, her hometown, on Aug. 1, 1997.

The identification, however, was based on outdated dental records prior to the removal of Rogers' wisdom teeth in 1996, Dr. Michael Berkland, associate medical examiner for Okaloosa County, said Friday.

The skull of the Boynton Beach remains still had all four of its wisdom teeth, he said.

''I think it would have been a travesty if the wrong person had been buried and someone could have potentially got away with murder down there,'' Berkland said.

Dr. Lisa Flannagan, the medical examiner for Palm Beach County, agreed with Berkland's finding, and blamed the misidentification on the outdated records.
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Funeral cancelled after remains misidentified

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WEST PALM BEACH -- The delayed funeral of a Panhandle teen-ager missing since 1997 has been called off after authorities in South Florida acknowledged incorrectly identifying a body found by a canal in 1999.

Earlier this month, the medical examiner's office in Palm Beach County identified skeletal remains found in suburban Boynton Beach in May 1999, using dental records, as those of Kristy Jean Rogers. She was 16 when she was last seen in Crestview, her hometown, on Aug. 1, 1997.

The identification, however, was based on outdated dental records prior to the removal of Rogers' wisdom teeth in 1996, Dr. Michael Berkland, associate medical examiner for Okaloosa County, said Friday.

The skull of the Boynton Beach remains still had all four of its wisdom teeth, he said.

"I think it would have been a travesty if the wrong person had been buried and someone could have potentially got away with murder down there," Berkland said.

Dr. Lisa Flannagan, the medical examiner for Palm Beach County, agreed with Berkland's finding, and blamed the misidentification on the outdated records.

"We rely on the information that is supplied to us from the local agencies in missing-person cases," Flannagan said. "You have to work each case with the information available."

Both medical examiners' offices agreed the remains, again unidentified, would be sent back to Palm Beach County. The cause of death has been determined to be blunt force trauma.

Wilma Sanders, who had a casket picked out and funeral arrangements set for her missing daughter, had conflicting feelings Friday when she learned the remains she had been about to bury were not Kristy's.

"I don't know how that big a mistake could be made," Sanders said at her Crestview home about 45 miles northwest of Pensacola. "I'm angry, I'm hurt, I'm relieved."

Sanders found out the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was questioning the identification Tuesday, when she went to a funeral home across the state line in Elba, Ala., to make final burial arrangements. She was told the FDLE had seized the remains.

While spending the next few days waiting to hear if the skeletal remains belonged to her daughter, Sanders admitted she convinced herself that they were.

"We had picked out the casket. I had her pictures put in nice frames to match it," she said, adding the search for her daughter would be resumed. "I had taken down the fliers about her. Now I have to put them back up."

Still, Sanders said she was grateful the mistake was caught.

"I'm glad they didn't just stand by and let us bury somebody else's child," she said.
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This article can be found on page A1 of the January 11, 2001 Daily News.

Police starting case over

By MICHAEL STEWART, Daily News Staff Writer

CRESTVIEW - Police officers say they have spent hundreds of man-hours tracking down leads and developing theories in the Aug. 2, 1997, disappearance of Kristy Rogers. Now they are starting over from scratch.

Earlier this week, investigators with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announ-ced that dental records of a corpse found floating in a canal in Boynton Beach on May 23, 1999, matched those of Rogers.

"None of the old theories or leads are relevant anymore," said Sgt. Kay Pitts, Crestview's lead investigator on the case.

"We assumed that she was still in the area."

The medical examiner in Palm Beach County said that Rogers' body had been in the canal for no more than six months and that she could have been alive as late as February of 1999.

That means she was not murdered in the Crestview area as originally suspected and was alive for well over a year after she disappeared, authorities said.

Although they had not ruled out the possibility that Rogers had run away, local officers were looking for a body in the Crestview area.

They dug up bone fragments in December of 1999 that were found at a home site close to where she disappeared. But the bones turned out to be those of an animal.

There were several suspects police officers were looking at as well.

None of the suspects were gone from the area long enough to harbor Rogers during the time she was alive. Investigators said they plan to switch tactics now.

"We, along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, are now going to try to find out how she left here and with who if possible," Pitts said.

Crestview police say they plan to join forces with Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies to try to solve the case. Pitts is boxing up copies of all the information they have and plans to send it to Palm Beach County investigator Wayne Robinson.

Robinson said he will try to find out what happened to Rogers from his end. Right now, he is not sure if the blunt-force trauma to the head that killed Rogers is the result of murder or a possible hit-and-run accident.

Robinson also plans to circulate a photo of Rogers to see if anyone in the Palm Beach County area knew her.

Both investigators say the case is puzzling. Friends and family say Kristy would not have run away without telling somebody.

"And it is highly unlikely that she was held against her will for that length of time," Robinson said.

Pitts said the new development does give them a starting point, however.

"We haven't had anything we could actually pinpoint and say, 'Well, this is where she was,' " Pitts said.

"At least now we have somewhere to look."

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Examiner: Remains not Rogers


Dr. Michael Berkland attributed the misidentification to Palm Beach County having outdated dental records.
By MICHAEL STEWART, Daily News Staff Writer
Skeletal remains found in a Palm Beach County canal do not belong to missing teen-ager Kristy Rogers, local authorities said Friday.

"The remains are absolutely not those of Kristy Rogers and the conclusion is rendered with the highest possible degree of certainty," said Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Berkland.

A comparison of the skull found in Boynton Beach and Rogers' dental records led to the determination. The skull has four wisdom teeth, while Rogers had none, Berkland said.

The news was another painful revelation to Rogers' mother, Wilma Sanders, who has been riding an emotional roller coaster since her daughter disappeared 31/2 years ago.

She hit a low point last week when Palm Beach County sheriff's investigators said they'd identified the remains as Rogers, again using dental records.

Sanders said she does not recall her daughter undergoing any oral surgery.

"She didn't have any taken out that I know of. But this whole thing has messed me up so bad maybe I just don't remember," she said.

Berkland in-sists that his findings are conclusive. He did not identify the oral surgeon who removed Rogers' wisdom teeth, but said records show she underwent oral surgery twice, once in July of 1996 and once the following September.

Berkland attributed the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office's misidentification of the remains to outdated records. Investigators were sent dental radiographs that were taken prior to the teen's oral surgeries, Berkland said.

Sanders said she was told last week that the skeleton also had two fillings that were not on her daughter's dental records, which, along with other discrepancies, prompted Berkland's investigation.

Palm Beach officials aren't talking about the findings. Sanders said Palm Beach Detective Wayne Robinson told her Thursday, prior to Berkland's findings, that they were sticking to their identification.

"He said the guy that does the dental records has been working with him 15 to 20 years and he has never been wrong yet and he doesn't suspect he is wrong this time," Sanders said.

Repeated phone calls to the sheriff's and medical examiner's offices in Palm Beach County on Friday yielded no results. But Berkland said there is no room for doubt now.

"I think it would have been a travesty if the wrong person had been buried and someone could have potentially got away with murder down there," Berkland said, referring to the blunt force trauma to the skull that is listed as the cause of death of the victim.

After Palm Beach County officials determined the remains belonged to Rogers, the body was shipped to Hayes Funeral Home in Elba, Ala., for burial, but the remains were taken for further testing the day before the funeral.

The mother of the missing teen took the news hard. After 31/2 years of not knowing anything the family was desperately seeking some kind of closure.

"They got all my hopes up that I had finally got it over with and now I am right back to where I started at," she cried.

Sgt. Kay Pitts is the lead investigator on the case for the Crestview Police Department. She said the finding puts them back at square one as well, with scant leads to go on.

Rogers disappeared in the early hours of Aug. 2, 1997, while walking home from Crestview resident Mack Cawthon's house.


Staff Writer Michael Stewart can be reached at 682-5608 or mikes@nwfdailynews.com
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Specific Case

Medical Examiner District: 15
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Their Case Number: 1999-00427
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Date of Death or Discovery: 1999-05-23
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Estimated Age of Decedent: 21-35
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Presumed Race: White
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Gender: Female
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Estimated Height: 5'-6'
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Estimated Weight: Unknown
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Location Found: Canal, 1/2 miles south of Boynton Beach Blvd. along US 441

Hair: Straight

Eyes: No details available

Facial Features: No details available

Tattoos: No details available

Scars, Surgeries and Other Dental and Medical Information:All four of her 3rd molars impacted

Jewelry: None

Clothing and Shoes: Black spandex shorts, light colored bra, and floral underwear. One white "Nike" tennis shoe (size 7)

Personal Effects: None

Other Details:Decedent may have been the victimo of a traffic homicide. Sketch can be found on the Doe Network's website

For more information about this case, contact:
Michael Britt with the District 20 Medical Examiner Office
239-434-5020, extension 1 or
michaelbritt@colliergov.net


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